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Trade and Taboo" investigates the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. It tracks the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity by following groups of professionals - funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers - and asking how they coped with stigmatization. The goal of this book is to reveal the construction and motivations for these attitudes, and to show how they created inequalities, informed institutions, and changed over time. Additionally, the volume shows how political and cultural shifts mutated these taboos, reshaping economic markets and altering the status of professionals at work within these markets. Sarah E. Bond investigates legal stigmas in the form of infamia and other marks of legal disrepute. Her volume expands on anthropological theories of pollution by exploring individuals who regularly came intocontact with corpses and other polluting materials, then considers communication and network formation through the disrepute attached to town criers called praecones. Ideas of disgust and the language of invective are brought forward looking at tanners, while the book closes with an exploration of caste-like systems created in the later Roman empire. Collectively, these professionals are eloquent about the economies and changes experienced within Roman society between 45BCE and 565 CE.

Professions --- Occupations --- Social status --- History. --- Rome --- History --- Social conditions. --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Statut social --- Social conditions --- Occupations. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. --- HISTORY / General. --- Business & economics / labor. --- Political science / labor & industrial relations. --- History / general. --- Professions. --- Social status. --- Rome (Empire). --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Career patterns --- Careers --- Jobs --- Trades --- Vocational guidance --- Work --- Professional services --- Interprofessional relations --- Professions - Rome - History --- Occupations - Rome - History --- Social status - Rome - History --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Rome - Social conditions

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This book deals with changing power and status relations between the highest ranking representatives of Roman imperial power at the central level, in a period when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, AD 193-284. Based on epigraphic, literary and legal materials, the author deals with issues such as the third-century development of emperorship, the shift in power of the senatorial elite and the developing position of senior military officers and other high equestrians. By analyzing the various senior power-holders involved in Roman imperial administration by social rank, this book presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration, appointment policies and socio-political hierarchies between the second and fourth centuries AD.

Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social status --- Imperialism --- Political culture --- Hierarchies --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Classes sociales --- Statut social --- Impérialisme --- Culture politique --- Hiérarchie --- History. --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Social conditions. --- History --- Officials and employees --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Fonctionnaires --- Rome ancienne --- --Politique et gouvernement --- --193-284 --- --Condition sociale --- --Pouvoir --- --Administration --- --Sélection --- --Classes sociales --- --Statut social --- --Impérialisme --- --Aspects sociaux --- --Culture politique --- --Hiérarchie --- --History --- Social conditions --- Selection and appointment --- Hierarchies - Rome - History. --- Hierarchies -- Rome -- History. --- Imperialism - Social aspects - Rome - History. --- Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History. --- Political culture - Rome - History. --- Political culture -- Rome -- History. --- Power (Social sciences) - Rome - History. --- Power (Social sciences) -- Rome -- History. --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment - History. --- Rome -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment -- History. --- Rome - Politics and government - 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome - Social conditions. --- Rome -- Social conditions. --- Social classes - Rome - History. --- Social classes -- Rome -- History. --- Social status - Rome - History. --- Social status -- Rome -- History. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Italy --- Impérialisme --- Hiérarchie --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Order --- Culture --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Prestige --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Power (Social sciences) - Rome - History --- Social classes - Rome - History --- Social status - Rome - History --- Imperialism - Social aspects - Rome - History --- Political culture - Rome - History --- Hierarchies - Rome - History --- Condition sociale --- Pouvoir --- Administration --- Sélection --- Aspects sociaux --- Rome - Social conditions --- Rome - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment - History --- empire --- socio-political --- romeins --- geschiedenis --- power --- romeins rijk --- history --- hierarchie --- administratie --- roman --- kracht --- administration --- biografische beschrijving --- hierarchies --- prosopography --- rijk --- roman empire --- socio-politiek --- Equites --- Gallienus --- Praetorian prefect --- Septimius Severus

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How far were appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit? Did experience matter? What difference did social rank make? This innovative study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of senators and knights by social category. Contrasting patterns emerge from a new database of senatorial careers. Although the highest appointments could reflect experience, a clear preference for the more aristocratic senators is also seen. Bias is visible even in the major army commands and in the most senior civilian posts nominally filled by ballot. In equestrian appointments, successes by the less experienced again suggest the power of social advantage. Senatorial recruitment gradually opened up to include many provincials but Italians still kept their hold on the higher social groupings. The book also considers the senatorial career more widely, while a final section examines slave careers and the phenomenon of voluntary slavery.

Slaves --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social status --- Career development --- History --- Rome. --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Army --- Cavalry --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Macht. --- Privileges (geschiedenis) --- Romeinse oudheid. --- History. --- Romeinse rijk. --- Social conditions. --- Privileges (geschiedenis). --- History / ancient / general. --- Power (social sciences) --- Slaves - Rome - History --- Power (Social sciences) - Rome - History --- Social status - Rome - History --- Career development - Rome - History --- Rome - History - Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome - Politics and government - 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --- Rome - Social conditions --- Rome - Army - Cavalry - History --- Career advancement --- Career ladder --- Career management --- Career planning --- Development, Career --- Development, Professional --- Employee development --- Organizational career development --- Professional development --- Personnel management --- Vocational guidance --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Prestige --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy)